International Telecommunication Union
ITU’s NGN-GSI (Global Standards
Initiative)
Reinhard Scholl
Deputy Director
ITU-T
NGN and Emerging Markets – Investment, Infrastructure and Innovation
5 December 2005, Königswinter, Germany
Outline
1. ITU-T in a competitive environment
2. ITU-T’s NGN work: current status
3. ITU-T’s NGN work: next steps
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1. ITU-T in a competitive environment
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Competition in ICT $tandardization
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Standardization has become a MARKET because of
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Liberalization of telecom industry
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Internet: anyone can set up a service
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Success of mobile telephony
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Rapid technological developments
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Market laws rule: demand and supply
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About 500 fora and standards organizations …
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… compete & cooperate
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Some will die, but new technologies will bring new
fora
Market pressure forced, and continues to force, ITU-T
to adapt to stay competitive
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Characteristics of ITU-T
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Work (mostly) done in Study Groups (13 of them)
ITU-T Product: Recommendations (= “standards”)
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Example: ADSL/VDSL
Unique partnership of private sector (Sector Members) &
government (Member States)
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Today, 95% of work is done by private sector
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Strong participation from Asia, esp. China
Remaining 5% if regulatory impact
Truly global
Consensus decisions
Very flexible
Fast procedures, transparent procedures
Brand name
IPR Policy
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ITU-T’s Membership
Recognized Operating
Agencies (CV229) - ROA
250
Scientific or Industrial
Organizations (CV229) SIO
Other entities dealing w ith
telecommunications
(CV230)
Associates (CV241A)
Manufacturers
200
Regional and other
international organizations
(CV231)
Regional
telecommunications
150
Operators
100
Associates (can attend 1 Study Group only)
50
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ITU-T is fast
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ITU-T is fast to
• start work: 1 day / few weeks (from 2-4 yrs)
• develop work: from weeks to 2-3 yrs (from 2-3
yrs)
• approve work: 2 months (from 4 yrs)
• “Speedy Gonzalez approval procedure” for
technical standards (=95% of work)
• publish work: couple of days after approval
(from 2-4 yrs)
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ITU-T’s Revolutionary Concept:
ITU-T Focus Groups
o Create forum-like entities as an “arms-length” organization under
ITU-T Study Group
o Goal:
• Encourage participation of non-members / members of other
organizations (fora)
o Focus group has lots of freedom to establish its own rules
• can keep own brand name and at the same time benefit from
ITU’s branding
• Non-ITU members can participate
o Recent examples:
• NGN Focus Group
• NGN Management Focus Group
• OCAF Focus Group = Open Communications Architecture Forum
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2. ITU-T’s NGN work: current status
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ITU’s NGN Definition
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Packet-based transfer
Separation of control functions among bearer capabilities, call/session,
and application/ service
Decoupling of service provision from network, and provision of open
interfaces
Support for a wide range of services, applications and mechanisms
based on service building blocks (including real time/ streaming/ nonreal time services and multi-media)
Broadband capabilities with end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service)
Generalized mobility
Access to different service providers, independent of any access or
transport technology.
Converged services between Fixed/Mobile
Independence of service-related functions from underlying transport
technologies
Support of multiple last mile technologies
Compliant with all Regulatory requirements, for example concerning
emergency communications, security, privacy, and etc.
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NGN is Predicated on:
Video Services (TV, movie, etc)
Data Services (WWW, e-mail, etc)
Telephone Services
Services
Point to point, Point to multipoint, Multipoint to multipoint
Transport
Point to point, Point to multipoint, Multipoint to multipoint
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Brief history of ITU-T’s NGN
Focus Group
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ITU-T Director launched NGN Focus Group (FGNGN) in
June 2004
Met almost every other month: 6, 7, 9, 11/2004 + 3,
5, 7, 9, 11/2005
Release-based approach
Nov 2005: NGN Release 1
Entire FGNGN output will be made publicly and freely
available online in a couple of days (some 900 pages)
Results now transferred to Study Group 13 et al.
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Statistics of FGNGN Meetings
Date/Place
Input Document
Participants
1st
June 04/Geneva
39
99
2nd
July 04/Geneva
66
66
3rd
September 04/Ottawa
141
121
4th
December 04/Geneva
125
123
5th
March 05/Jeju
174
144
6th
April 05/Geneva
142
144
7th
June 05/Beijing
175
174
8th
August 05/Geneva
187
145
9th
November 05/London
157
150
1,206
1,166
Total
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Work Areas of ITU-T’s FGNGN
WG
Area
Deliverables
WG 1
Service Requirements
Development of scope, service requirements and
capabilities according to Release Plan
WG 2
Functional Architecture, and
Mobility
Development of Functional Architecture in general and
specific instance views including Mobility aspects
WG 3
QoS
Development of End-End QoS releated deliverables
including network performance aspects
WG 4
Control & Signalling
Development of control related standards support QoS
include Resource Admission and Control aspects
WG 5
Security Capability
Development of Security Framework under NGN
environment
WG 6
Evolution
Evolution of PSTN/ISDN into NGN
WG7
Future Packet-based Bearer
Network
Identify problem states of current packet based network
and development of Future Packet Network requirements
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Deliverables (#) from FGNGN
NGN Definition and Features
(ITU-T Rec. Y.2001, 2011)
Scope
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Service
Req.
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Capa.
(4)
Quality of Service aspects
(9)
Control of QoS (1)
Resource Adm./Cont. aspects
(1)
Security aspects (2)
General
Funct.
Archit.
(7)
Migration aspects (3)
Future Packet Based Networks (4)
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Quotes at “NGN Industry
Event”, London, 18 Nov 05
o NGN Industry Event sponsored by Cisco, BT,
Lucent, Nortel, Motorola, Siemens
o Mick Reeve, BT:
• “The NGN as defined in the ITU is the future
direction of telecoms”
• “Excellent start at global standardisation –
congratulations to the ITU on their lead!”
o Hans-Ulrich Schoen, Siemens:
• “ITU-T FGNGN did a great job in covering
• Migration issues to NGN; End to end QoS; Security
enabling; Facilitate integration of fixed and mobile
standards (TISPAN, 3GPP)”
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3. ITU-T’s NGN work: next steps
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Arrangements has ITU-T put in place to deliver successfully the
standards for global implementation of NGN
o NGN Focus Group is successfully passing the baton
to NGN-GSI
o NGN-GSI = brand name:
• Comprises NGN-related work in ITU,
• Steered by SG 13 according to coordinated work plan
o Collocation of study groups; plenaries in sequence
o NGN Project Management Tool (will be made
publicly available)
o NGN Management Focus Group to continue (FCAPS
mgt interfaces)
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ITU-T partners with others
o ITU NGN-GSI will provide global NGN standards …
o … in conjunction with regional standards bodies and
fora worldwide
Asia
(CJK)
Asia
America
(ATIS)
Regional Standards
ITU
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Upcoming NGN-GSI Events in 2006 / 2007
o NGN-GSI #1: January 16-27, Geneva
• January 20: Technical & Strategy Review meeting
NGN-GSI #2: April 22-27, Japan
NGN-GSI #3: July 17-28, Geneva
NGN-GSI #4: Oct 23 – Nov 3, Geneva
NGN-GSI #5: January 2007 – looking for host
NGN-GSI #6: April 2007
NGN-GSI #7: September 2007
[But can have any # of meetings in between]
[If needed, can also always create Focus Groups]
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o March 19-20, 2006: NGN Workshop ITU/ATIS in Las Vegas, USA
o April, 20-21, 2006: Workshop on NGN and its transport
networks, Kobe, Japan
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Acknowledgments
o The talk has been based in part on
presentations given at ITU’s NGN Industry
Event, London, 18 Nov 2005:
www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/ngn/200511
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